Dear Juno,
I'm a high school senior, I've been in a relationship for 3 years and I'm not pregnant. I understand how you've become pregnant. Many peoples first time didn't go as planned either. Whether you got drunk at a party and you lost your virginity to someone you just met, or you have unprotected sex and get pregnant. I know you could've prevented this though, by using birth control which you could've gotten at any Planned Parenthood for free. Although you've made a mistake, which all of us do, there was a way that you could've avoided being in this situation.
I give you props. You handled your situation you were put in so well. I can't imagine all the stress that was put on you during your pregnancy, and I give you props for being mature enough for managing the hand you were given. It takes a lot of courage for you to create this human inside you, give it life, and to just give it away to someone else. I think you made a very smart decision. I respect your decision to give up your child for adoption because you didn't feel like you were ready enough to raise your child as a teenager with another teenage because you aren't mature enough yet. You still want to experience the rest of your high school without having to stay home on a friday night to watch your child. I think if you and Bleeker were together for a longer period of time before you got pregnant that it would be a different story.
By the age of 18 my mom already had my sister and myself. She dropped out of school her sophomore year and finished graduating online. My mom chose to kept both of us, supported us, never neglected us and make her mom watch us while she went out with her friends. She noticed that she needed to let go of her old life, and grow up before the rest of her peers did. Now she has 5 kids, 3 in college doing great, gets all the bills payed for, she does everything a mother does if she was to have waiting to have kids. Of course she could've had an abortion, given us up for adoption, but she chose not to. Just like I would if I was in Juno's position. I couldn't live with knowing I killed my potential son/daughter for the rest of my life. Nor could I live with knowing that they could hate me their entire life for not "wanting" them, for giving them up for adoption. Although it would be a tough situation, I would have to prepare myself for what I got myself into. I'm very proud of how strong of a women you are Juno, it must've been a very hard time in your life.
Sincerely,
Anika
I'm a high school senior, I've been in a relationship for 3 years and I'm not pregnant. I understand how you've become pregnant. Many peoples first time didn't go as planned either. Whether you got drunk at a party and you lost your virginity to someone you just met, or you have unprotected sex and get pregnant. I know you could've prevented this though, by using birth control which you could've gotten at any Planned Parenthood for free. Although you've made a mistake, which all of us do, there was a way that you could've avoided being in this situation.
I give you props. You handled your situation you were put in so well. I can't imagine all the stress that was put on you during your pregnancy, and I give you props for being mature enough for managing the hand you were given. It takes a lot of courage for you to create this human inside you, give it life, and to just give it away to someone else. I think you made a very smart decision. I respect your decision to give up your child for adoption because you didn't feel like you were ready enough to raise your child as a teenager with another teenage because you aren't mature enough yet. You still want to experience the rest of your high school without having to stay home on a friday night to watch your child. I think if you and Bleeker were together for a longer period of time before you got pregnant that it would be a different story.
By the age of 18 my mom already had my sister and myself. She dropped out of school her sophomore year and finished graduating online. My mom chose to kept both of us, supported us, never neglected us and make her mom watch us while she went out with her friends. She noticed that she needed to let go of her old life, and grow up before the rest of her peers did. Now she has 5 kids, 3 in college doing great, gets all the bills payed for, she does everything a mother does if she was to have waiting to have kids. Of course she could've had an abortion, given us up for adoption, but she chose not to. Just like I would if I was in Juno's position. I couldn't live with knowing I killed my potential son/daughter for the rest of my life. Nor could I live with knowing that they could hate me their entire life for not "wanting" them, for giving them up for adoption. Although it would be a tough situation, I would have to prepare myself for what I got myself into. I'm very proud of how strong of a women you are Juno, it must've been a very hard time in your life.
Sincerely,
Anika